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feedmyleg posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azkVr0VUSTA Looks like it could be overdramatic and probably too long. But it's not really fair to compare it to Funny People. It looks way better than that, even if it is from Apatow.
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I enjoyed Funny People and I sorta like Apatow's earnestly sentimental style 
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May 8, 2020 19:41
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I am simply shocked that it looks as good as it does considering how much I usually dislike Pete Davidson.
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May 8, 2020 20:53
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"Resist every urge you have to actually be yourself. Yeah, just read the lines, don't be you, and my editors will work their magic. People are gonna love it, Pete, you'll see." -Judd Apatow
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I am simply shocked that it looks as good as it does considering how much I usually dislike Pete Davidson. Same. I like everyone involved in that, except him.
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May 9, 2020 02:14
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Judd Apatow has a lot of very obvious flaws in his films (mostly that they are almost universally too goddamn long) but he's always been very good at getting really honest performances out of people who you might not expect to be good at acting. Like you can draw a direct downward line in inherent acting talent for the stars of each of his movies (Steve Carell is better than Seth Rogan, who is better than Adam Sandler, who is better than Amy Schumer, who is probably better than Pete Davidson) (edit: I forgot Paul Rudd, who is definitely a better actor than Adam Sandler and Seth Rogan, but also didn't fit the pattern) but the movies are fully designed to get really good performances out of the actors by putting them squarely in their comfort zone, surrounded by people who they work well with and stories that are squarely in their emotional wheelhouses. His movies are also fun to watch when the improv is working correctly, because it feels like you're hanging out with really funny versions of your friends. edit: King of Staten Island is 136 minutes, which means it's the second longest Apatow movie but all of them fall in the 125-145 range except 40-Year-Old Virgin but that had a director's cut come out that's like a half-hour longer. I do not understand why his movies need to be so loving long. DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 03:02 on May 9, 2020 |
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DC Murderverse posted:Judd Apatow has a lot of very obvious flaws in his films (mostly that they are almost universally too goddamn long) but he's always been very good at getting really honest performances out of people who you might not expect to be good at acting. Like you can draw a direct downward line in inherent acting talent for the stars of each of his movies (Steve Carell is better than Seth Rogan, who is better than Adam Sandler, who is better than Amy Schumer, who is probably better than Pete Davidson) (edit: I forgot Paul Rudd, who is definitely a better actor than Adam Sandler and Seth Rogan, but also didn't fit the pattern) but the movies are fully designed to get really good performances out of the actors by putting them squarely in their comfort zone, surrounded by people who they work well with and stories that are squarely in their emotional wheelhouses. His movies are also fun to watch when the improv is working correctly, because it feels like you're hanging out with really funny versions of your friends. Also he shoots hours and hours of improv for each scene, a lot of his early cuts are 3-4 hours long. He makes multiple versions and screens them for audiences, and records their reactions. They track the laughter during the screenings to know what jokes to keep and what jokes to cut.
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May 9, 2020 06:07
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Adam Sandler is a way better actor than Seth Rogen.... when he actually wants to try.
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May 9, 2020 17:59
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I'd guess if you asked Seth Rogen his opinion on that he'd agree wholeheartedly.
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May 9, 2020 18:15
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Same for Adam Sandler and Steve Carell. Well, not necessarily that he'd agree.
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feedmyleg posted:I'd guess if you asked Seth Rogen his opinion on that he'd agree wholeheartedly. Rogen seems to have made acting into an occasional thing while he produces passion projects, which I can get behind even if I don't love the results. I still like a bunch of his stuff. His Nardwuar interview is very enjoyable, partly because I think Seth hasn't changed much. He was an affable stoner a decade ago, now he's an affable stoner with money and clout. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 21:23 on May 9, 2020 |
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Dillbag posted:Also he shoots hours and hours of improv for each scene, a lot of his early cuts are 3-4 hours long. He makes multiple versions and screens them for audiences, and records their reactions. They track the laughter during the screenings to know what jokes to keep and what jokes to cut. God, I hate improv film so loving much.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:God, I hate improv film so loving much. It's extremely difficult to make a comedy without it. Jokes just don't translate from the page well enough to sustain a movie usually
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kiimo posted:It's extremely difficult to make a comedy without it. Jokes just don't translate from the page well enough to sustain a movie usually What's the difference between a comedy movie and a comedy TV show, in this regard.
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I mean I don't know but shows like New Girl used improv extensively and they're funny but shows like the Mindy Project has excellent writing because Mindy Kaling is just a really consistently funny writer (and one who writes actual jokes rather than just put people in embarrassing situations) so maybe it's easier to find improv people than really talented comedy writing? Just a guess, not a writer and don't work in production.
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May 10, 2020 16:49
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There’s nothing inherently wrong with improv film or tv. There’s not even anything wrong with screening jokes. Tons of scripted movies need screenings to figure out what works and doesn’t work too.
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The problem with most improvised jokes in filmed media is that they're hollow, essentially just fun time-wasters. By their nature they don't connect to anything else, but exist in their own ephemeral vacuum affecting nothing else around them. Because these scenes are generally crafted in editing choosing amongst many many takes, there's no build-up to a joke, no heightening, no callbacks. You can't film any sequences that play off of it. It's just a funny thing someone says in character to kill a bit of time before the story moves on. Because they don't know if any given joke will make the final edit they can't film other material that connects to it. That doesn't mean they're inherently bad, it just means that if your entire piece is built off of them then you'll end up with something that feels inessential because the jokes aren't actually connected to the narrative in any larger sense and your film or show is at conflict with itself. But in half-hour sitcoms that's easier to swallow than in a narrative feature, since jokes can be far more throwaway.
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May 10, 2020 18:03
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Imo Apatows movies generally work because he has a strong story framework to start with, then lets performers improvise within scenes. Yeah if you come to set with literally nothing and just let the actors riff that would probably be bad but I don’t think anyone in mainstream entertainment except maybe Larry David does things entirely improvised. Anyway, they’re comedies, they’re supposed to be funny, and sometimes you get funnier jokes through improv than behind a keyboard.
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kiimo posted:I mean I don't know but shows like New Girl used improv extensively and they're funny but shows like the Mindy Project has excellent writing because Mindy Kaling is just a really consistently funny writer (and one who writes actual jokes rather than just put people in embarrassing situations) so maybe it's easier to find improv people than really talented comedy writing? Just a guess, not a writer and don't work in production. One thing I've discovered (although kinda knew) from listening to the office girls podcast is that The Office had an insane amount of writing talent. I mean there was some improv here and there because that's the name of the game but so much of the genius jokes that seem like improv are indeed very written.
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McSpanky posted:What's the difference between a comedy movie and a comedy TV show, in this regard. One factor is that the TV writers usually know which actors are going to be playing the main roles and their usual form of delivery, plus they usually have a pretty clear idea of how the show is usually directed and how it flows. Movie scriptwriters often have no idea who'll be starring in the film, or who the director will be, or the DOP. Compare how TV pilots are often a bit poo poo and flat compared to the televised episodes, where they've had a chance to work out a lot of the writing kinks as well as a bunch of other issues. Also it's way more common for TV scripts to come out of writing rooms where they can bounce ideas off each other and sharpen material as they go whereas films tend to be written by some person alone in a room.
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feedmyleg posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azkVr0VUSTA I thought you wrote Funny Games and I got very confused watching the trailer.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdX7M1enNlU Relevant to the discussion at hand
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Tm63y-S4s Looks cool even though I'm bummed they are depicting John Brown as a crazy man
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What's with the talk of not knowing whose side God is on (hint: NOT THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KEEP HAVING SLAVES) and having a black character talking about what a cuckoo john brown is I dont mind him being intense and fire & brimstone (and like every post in the trailer thread this is a premature take) but cmon, is it too much for the material to seem like it has respect for the guy? This doesn't really jibe: "His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave." Frederick Douglass, as quoted in A Lecture On John Brown.
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Now I might be from Kansas but this seems like it might stray into familiar territory of villainizing the anti-slavery movement like The Outlaw Josey Wales did but I might be clouded being a Jayhawker. The Missouri trash were killing people trying to turn Kansas into a slave state and John Brown, who was certainly a crazy man, actually did something about it. Have one of these if you ever make it to Lawrence.  don't @ me, MU fans
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May 16, 2020 16:35
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In the words of Victor Hugo, "[T]here is something more frightening than Cain killing Abel, and that is Washington killing Spartacus."
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Punkin Spunkin posted:What's with the talk of not knowing whose side God is on (hint: NOT THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KEEP HAVING SLAVES) and having a black character talking about what a cuckoo john brown is I'm not loving the voice over in the trailer, but Douglas being pretty ambivalent towards Brown (and black slaves being skeptical of him in general) is pretty true to life. Brown was one of those people who was a lot easier to get along with after he had been executed.
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kiimo posted:Now I might be from Kansas but this seems like it might stray into familiar territory of villainizing the anti-slavery movement like The Outlaw Josey Wales did but I might be clouded being a Jayhawker. I want that shirt. Groovelord Neato posted:In the words of Victor Hugo, "[T]here is something more frightening than Cain killing Abel, and that is Washington killing Spartacus." Great quote.
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kiimo posted:Now I might be from Kansas but this seems like it might stray into familiar territory of villainizing the anti-slavery movement like The Outlaw Josey Wales did but I might be clouded being a Jayhawker. The whole notion that brown was “crazy” doesn’t crop up historiographically for a full generation after his death. His contemporaries don’t seem to have considered him unstable, it’s only later when racist ideologues hijacked American history departments that this kind of slander started to be taught as fact
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After all, a white man fighting for abolition would have to be insane, wouldn't he?
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The Civil War has to be the one time the losers got to write the history.
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Groovelord Neato posted:The Civil War has to be the one time the losers got to write the history. Not really, it's just a really blatant example. History is constantly being written by everyone.
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Groovelord Neato posted:The Civil War has to be the one time the losers got to write the history. The Southern ruling class won the war in 1877.
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Groovelord Neato posted:The Civil War has to be the one time the losers got to write the history.
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new Spike Lee joint for Netflix. Looks good! Helluva cast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5RDTPfsLAI
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That feels like a potential companion film to that recent Linklater film. Hopefully better though.
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Antebellum continues to look rad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFNEkDvIpsw
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Add THE OLD GUARD to the pile with EXTRACTION, 6 UNDERGROUND, and SPENCER CONFIDENTIAL in the lexicon of Netflix action movies that look like a real movie, act like a real movie, but don't really feel like a real movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK-X2d0lJ_s
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Extraction owned though
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It's a movie where you get to see Chris Hemsworth beat a dude up using another dude as a weapon River City Ransom style, it earns its right to exist on that alone
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